A wise Vulcan once said “Logic is the begining of wisdom not the end”, but enough about that weirdo. Take the 15-question Arm Chair Logic Test to find out how logical you are.
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The nerdcore is strong over at moviemistakes.com and they’ve compiled the 10 biggest movie mistakes of 2008.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull tops the list of blunder-prone movies with a staggering 64 mistakes – continuity errors, visible crew, and a motorbike from the future.
The top 10 most mistake-ridden movies of 2008
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – 64 mistakes
- Mamma Mia! – 44 mistakes
- The Dark Knight – 43 mistakes
- Twilight – 41 mistakes
- High School Musical 3: Senior Year – 41 mistakes
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) – 31 mistakes
- Quantum of Solace – 23 mistakes
- Get Smart – 22 mistakes
- Step Brothers – 22 mistakes
- Iron Man – 21 mistakes
Doobie, dope, roach, reefer, grass, Mary Jane, boom, splif, ganja, herb. Marijuana goes under several names and is a contentious issue with many people. And Weeds Season 1 takes a satirical look at it in an affluent, suburban context.
In Weeds, housewife Nancy Botwin (Mary Louise Parker) is a recent widow living in the Los Angeles, California suburb of Agrestic. Having lost her breadwinner husband to a heart attack, Nancy is hurled not only into a financial crisis, but into a single-mother role, having to console sons Silas (Hunter Parrish) and Shane (Alexander Gould) as they mourn their father’s passing. As the debt increases, Nancy discovers the community’s insatiable desire for marijuana, and becomes the neighbourhood weed dealer to make “easy money” and maintain the lifestyle her family is used to.
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Blu-ray Review: Iron Man
Meet Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr). The son of deceased weapons manufacturer, Howard Stark, Tony is an arrogant (yet charming) billionaire and genius who spends as much time building machines as he does chasing the ladies. As a stop on his globe-trotting tour, Tony is visiting Afghanistan to promote his company’s state-of-the-art missile system, the Jericho, when his convoy is attacked and he is taken prisoner by a terrorist group, the Ten Rings. Injured in the attack, Tony is nursed back to health by fellow prisoner, surgeon, and translator, Dr. Yinsen (Shaun Toub). Already possessing a vast cache of Stark Industries weapons, the terrorists want Tony to build the new Jericho system for them as well, and in exchange they will set him free.
Will Tony submit to the terrorists or does he have other plans in mind? Read more after the jump.
Even though the Western genre has fallen out of favour with the general movie-going public in recent decades, it doesn’t prevent filmmakers from trying to revive it. And 3:10 to Yuma is latest attempt to bring the Western out of the cold. Based on an Elmore Leonard short story that was last adapted to screen in 1957, director James Mangold remakes 3:10 to Yuma into a less psychological but more action-packed film.
In 3:10 to Yuma, Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is a simple man deep in debt, trying to hold his family together and save his ranch from the ravages of drought. In desperation Dan volunteers to be part of the posse that will escort notorious train robber Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) to a town named Contention, where he’ll be put on the 3:10 train to a prison in Yuma. For this, Dan will be paid a much-needed $200 by the railroad company.
Will Dan and the posse deliver the prisoner to Contention in time?
Here at the Onelargeprawn blog, we pride ourselves in giving you the facts. And here’s a rather tasty fact – Dasha Astafieva, a 23-year old Ukranian model has been selected to be Playboy’s January 2009 Playmate of the Month. She is the 55th Anniversary Playmate.
At a party celebrating Playboy’s 55th Birthday, Astafieva displayed her credentials to the world. She showed up wearing a very see-through dress but halfway down the red carpet, she realized her thong was blocking our view of her vagina, so she hiked up her dress and somewhat gracefully took the thong off! Maybe she had too much to drink that day or maybe Ukrainian girls just love to show the world their vaginas.
In any case, hit the jump to see more pics of the classy girl [NSFW].
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Blu-ray Review: Superbad
In Superbad, best friends Evan (Michael Cera) and Seth (Jonah Hill) are two weeks away from graduating high school, and are desperate to lose their virginity before going off to different colleges in the fall. They are, however, far from popular — Evan is a shy sweater-wearing geek and Seth is chubby potty-mouth who can turn any conversation into a lewd sexual innuendo.
Seth has finally scored them an invite to a house party but only if he can bring booze for the under-age crowd. The only problem is that both Evan and Seth aren’t old enough to buy alcohol legally, but their uber-geeky friend Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) says he can organize an ID. Optimism quickly fades as Fogell rocks up with the horrendously fake ID claiming he’s a 25-year-old Hawaiian organ donor whose name is simply, McLovin.
Is this the start of a slippery slope to disaster? Find out after the jump.
If the likes of Roger Ebert and the stoutly Barry Ronge can review movies, I don’t think it’s a far stretch for me to try my hand at it.
So, with brevity in mind, and a not-so-solid grasp of the English language, behold my movie review!
The Day the Earth Stood Still
What it should have been called: The Day The Brain Stood Still
The plot: We puny humans are horrible caretakers and as a result global warming is killing the Earth. Some alien elders are not pleased about this, and send a spaceship to Earth, bearing an emissary Klaatu and his large robot, GORT.
Klaatu has come to assess whether humanity can reverse the environmental damage we’ve done to the planet. His mind gets practically made up when he gets shot by the military and detained. Using cunning alien trickery he escapes and decides that the humans need to be destroyed to save the earth.
It is now up to astrobiologist Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly), her obnoxious step-son Jacob (Jaden Smith), and altruism expert Professor Barnhardt (a cameo by John Cleese) to try dissuade him. It doesn’t take a brain scientist to guess the outcome.
“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad ass speed”. This (fake) quote from Eleanor Roosevelt sums up America’s fascination and lust for speed. To give you an idea of how popular NASCAR racing is in America, the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama has seating for 175 000 spectators! By comparison the largest NFL stadium in Washington, D.C. can only accommodate 80,000 spectators.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby tells the story of Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) who was born in the backseat of his Dad’s speeding car. The dope-smoking Reese Bobby, Ricky’s dad (Gary Cole) skips out on the family and Ricky grows up treasuring the only bit of wisdom his father left him — “If you ain’t first, you’re last.”
Ricky and his best friend, Cal Naughton Jr. (John C. Reilly), become drivers for the Wonder Bread NASCAR racing team and are soon known as the “Shake ‘n Bake” duo. Ricky becomes NASCAR’s most popular driver, and enjoys the fruits of his labour, amassing an obscene amount of money, a bleached-blond trophy wife, and two cute (but utterly rude) sons Walker and Texas Ranger.
Ricky’s perfect world is about to hit a speed bump. Hit the jump to see where it goes.
For those who might now know, a Lifesteam is an aggregated view of your life activities both online and offline which you can share across the social web with your web site’s visitors. When you hang out with your friends in the real world, you talk about all sorts of things like the music you’re listening to, the movies you’ve watched, the games you’ve played, the books you’ve attempted to read. Lifestreaming lets you create the stuff you’ve talked about in digital form.
Sweetcron, designed by Yongfook, a freelance web producer based in Tokyo, gives you the tools to create your Lifestream, with automatic imports of you flickr photos and bookmarks; it had customizable themes, can be self-hosted, and is 100% open source.
Check out www.yongfook.com or locally-produced www.smaakit.co.za to see what Sweetcron looks like.
Sweetcron is in public beta. You can find the install files HERE; a Wiki with instructions to get you started can be found HERE.